For immediate release
May 11, 2017

Portland, ME, May 11, 2017 … Gen Re’s recently released U.S. Individual Disability Market Survey reveals overall positive results in 2016 for the 17 participating companies. Total in-force premium, which includes Non-Cancelable (Non-Can), Guaranteed Renewable (GR) and Buy-Sell products, increased 1.6%, representing nearly $5 billion. Meanwhile, total sales premium was flat at -0.2%.

Additional highlights from this annual benchmark report include:

• Non-Can represents 86% of total in-force premium, GR represents 13% and Buy-Sell accounts for just 1%.
• In-force premium for Non-Can increased 1.4% in 2016 to $4.3 billion; GR in-force premium grew 3.3% to $626.5 million, while Buy-Sell fell 2.5% to $66.4 million.
• Non-Can sales premium grew 1.2%, while GR decreased 6.1%. After several years of trending downward, Buy-Sell sales premium increased 4.7%.

The Market Survey is an annual benchmark survey produced by Gen Re, with the full results available only to participating companies.

A summary report is available online at www.genre.com/lhsurveys.

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